We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The most valuable features are Prism Central and the Disaster Recovery."
"Before implementing Prism, we had an issue with too many alerts for similar issues, so it was difficult to maintain them. The alerts kept coming, and we had a hard time keeping track of everything. We had multiple alerts about CPU, RAM, and storage. Prism helps us identify and eliminate false alerts because most of them were redundant."
"Nutanix Prism is popular in the Indian market, particularly in enterprises where they need a DR type of environment, and where they look for less than finite RPO and RTO. If you have this environment on-premises, and if you can just rent out some portion to any of the service providers, then you can easily set up a DR environment to give you a finite list versus RPO and RTO."
"The feature that stands out for me is the simplicity and ease of use. That is what comes to mind when I think about the Prism console. You don't need to be a core technical person to manage a cluster. Everything is available in the console itself."
"The biggest plus that I want to commend them for is definitely their one-click update/upgrade feature. I use Prism for that and it's so amazing. That, by itself, is a selling point."
"Duplication and compression work for data in a hybrid solution."
"The storage management is one of the best."
"Simplicity of use."
"I found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"The interface is good, but it needs improvements. There are a lot of functions that are only available in the CLI. In addition, some of the hardware components could be improved. We already had some trouble with disks."
"One thing I would like to see is one-click migration. I know that's on the roadmap, but we don't have it yet."
"Does not yet have micro application using a company's provider."
"Sometimes the life cycle management function of Nutanix can't find the latest version of the firmware. The lifecycle management product could be more up-to-date."
"In our environment we are using it alongside VMware, so some integration with that would be nice. VMware has SHD (Skyline Health Diagnostics) which diagnoses health and gives suggestions. A plug-in for taking information out of it would be helpful."
"Nutanix does not support all of the Linux distributions, so we have to use VMware in some cases."
"Although this solution has very good analytics capabilities, it can be even more granular."
"I would like to see the capability to use FC SAN storage."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, HPE OneView, Zabbix, Datadog and Moogsoft, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Veeam ONE and HPE OneView. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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